The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-18
THEWONDERFUL VOLUNTEER
SIZE MAI BE BEATEN ON a REACH, BUT
TO WINDWARD, NEVER



big craving or dugout docks Of Messrs Ham
dren 4 Robins, at the foot OF Van Brunt street,
South Brooklyn. on Wednesday. Scotch skill
and experience Of the best sort will be exer-
cised on her steel hull for three days, and sha
will then be foated. It Ia possible TO exclude
the public from the dock. A representative Of
the dock owners said yesterday:
The owner Of the Scotch Yacht has not yet
decided whether he will exclude the public or
not. While no responsible person 10 prevented
from going to Our docks at any time, We arc
careful as to whom we admit. II Mr.. Bell exs
poets that We are to suspend all other business,
however, on account Of the Thistle. he is likely
to find that he has made 0 mistake, for Wa
would entertain no ouch proposition. but We
shall take every precaution toward the exclu-
sion OF irresponsible persons, to say the least"
The Volunteer took o sail from her anchor
age of Bay Ridge over to Tompkinsville yes.
terday afternoon. The air was very light and
she moved slowly. She lay to for hfty-eight
minutes, unbent her old SAIL set her new one.
Of lighter material, and then sailed back to
Bay Ridge. Gen. Paine said he was
as we'll satisfied as the public seemed to be
over the Volunteers superb performance on
Friday. He thought the Thistle's qualities
had not been exaggerated. and that she was q
foe worthy Of his steel (clipperL Capt. Barr Is
reported to have said that he sailed the Thistle
as well as he could on Friday. considering the
disadvantages under which she labored, in:
Guiding h the dizzy astern. foul bottom, and
viii f ps pa PoT
she parted the bolt holding tho Iron span at
The Captain had the Jaws lashed and
sSSss'ass y s'' aEns The gan eu yl'ss
sail bAQQed much. and DraVented
him from making as good time as he might
haye In the battle
as much better as the figures show. He says
".biow high or blow low. He Believes that tho
Mayfower herself could also ;yanquish the
s Tss
what Mr.. Jay Gould said yesterday, when
xhs sas n.y. aeuS s , slss e
!Ataaats;;s bridge n saEias thst IL yplan.
men who followed the big yachts in the ,aukes
mendous burst Of speed made by the Volun-
teer when lacking home after turning the last
body SO c s 4 in her streneh as
that was most wonderful performance,
nder the and
shsn sSe was gasr ssd she esr
yards than she had last year, and that this Was
to her advantage was testified to BY those who
ommended the additionai Canvas nsa s Sic was In
the pink of condition; On the other, hand. the
ried her old mliinsail instead q the new and
larger one that that, she VIII cary That the May
we er a the epsa wa
blown out OF the bolt ropes. and the fact that
she made shorter and better course of the
and withal lost so little on that reach and the
reach out again prove the seamanship Of those
She e CARRIED her topsa as nj as she Could
and she made Grand fight Shs simply has
the superiority Of the new boat over the old in
to showS a9w mS Wo Se Nbs
manifest superiority excited in the spectators
But when the spectators came to argue from
that the hey Thise had she been BEEN resnay IN
the race. would have been left where the May
Thistle Would have been IL no such place. Il
Ssa sh ss hs Th $a Ws s ss
at 6 e DARTS bsr But there ons
without first decking and cleaning his boati
had been for many days lying in the fopllne
hour would a glass smooth bottom be worth
to her? Any one who will take trouble to row
as a mans hand. Those biistersr viii not be
there on race day.
Lightship and back is where the Thistle will
have the best chance of winning. There Is
the wind on this course In proportion to the
beating than on tho two courses that must be
tire course. through a shit OF wind. should be-
covered with sheets started. No one need be-
No Nc, patriot need be disheartened II she does.
In one of the outside d races. unless she gets 9
% 81 Wind b she must th beat miles
In beating those distances the Volunteer may
be trusted to recover any distance she may
1 who
may doubt thls,tnt those. who viii take the trou-
on the other. side, as published in the British
Papers win And that Az always, gained when
and that even the Genesta could give her y
good fight to windward n good breeze One
sent the swiftest yachts over the course In q
trife more than FIVE hours The Thistle
ward. but after the lightship was rounded and
Slit she be% the ae Gsn ssas
Sesds the vountser tho ''ne''a be
OF one thing the public may rest assured
the international races OF this year will be in-
teresting beyond any races ever sailed. Each
boat Is far ahead Of anything OF its kind: each
is manned by crew and commanded by o
yachtsman as good as ever shrugged away un-
der a weather rail or handled a tiller Neither
boat Is likely to have the advantage OF the
whole OF any course. There will be fun enough
for those who get homesick when they think Of
the Highlands Of Scotland. They can cheer
themselyes hoarse. with good reason, as they
down the wind to the turn. And then. when
once around the Yankees who have. during the
run. sulked and walked about with faces as
gather about the weather rails q the excur:
si0n b ss ana g o bs WITH ne o AZ Of
will gaze on a narrowing breadth OF water.
With each graceful sweep OF the long nosed
ment will rise.. until by and by they
will see the Volunteer come up into
then, as they are almost ready to say there will
be IL collision. they will see the black hull Of
the cleaning white hull Of the sloop. and. wild
with enthusiasm. they will take OH hats and
han lIra tnfa and If,... 81.